ABSTRACT

Building commissioning has a broad scope that extends to all phases of building delivery. This chapter aims to view commissioning as a building delivery embedded process that persistently verifies and validates design intent throughout the building lifecycle process. The Embedded Commissioning Model, integrating commissioning within building lifecycle phases, is intended to address the need for continuous evaluation during not only the design specification phase but also for all of the other phases of building lifecycle. The scope of overall research program is to identify process flow of embedded commissioning in building lifecycle phases and develop a data model that represents the information in it. These are going to be a base to build a computer assisted decision tool to enable all of the information exchange links between building lifecycle phases and the embedded commissioning activities.